30. Social Networking with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter

Want to find out what your friends, family, and colleagues are up to? Want to let them know what you’re doing today? Then you need to hop onboard the social networking trend, via websites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Social networking enables people to share experiences and opinions with each other via community-based websites. These websites collect millions of individual web pages from active users that combine to create an interactive social network. It’s how savvy online users are connecting today.

How Social Networks Work

In practice, a social ...

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